Nollie, I think your last one is Colour Spectacle. I had three from Lidl last year, two like the one above, but one of them had white tips to the petals for part of the season. It seems to be a bit variable. All my Noordwijks glorie turned out double.
@fidgetbones, it was labelled as Colour Spectacle, but since it didn’t have the white tips and started off pinky red I thought it must be mislabelled - perhaps I got the right one after all. Very different to what I was expecting from the pic on the front tho and much bigger - ‘dinner plate’ size...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie - your single Noordwijks Glorie flowers are ‘blown centres’. A defect in the plant caused by environmental influences or a breakdown/instability in the plant’s genetics. Given your location, I suspect that the cause of your ‘single’ flowers will be due to your weather. It will be interesting to note whether later flowers are true to type.
I have a bi-colour dahlia in my garden that has done nothing but produce blown centred flowers all summer. Given that my plant has also thrown out some single coloured flowers instead of two, it’s likely to be genetics. I have two cuttings of it taken before the problem was evident. If they are true to type, it might get a reprieve, otherwise it’s for the bin. Too many other nice ones to put up with an ugly duckling!
I don’t really have any favourites, it really depends on what looks good at the time!
This one is called Nadia Ruth and is a flower on a cutting taken earlier this year. Ordinarily, I allow cuttings to flower sufficiently to check that my plant labelling is accurate and then I remove them. I missed removing this one due to being on holiday and so thought that I may as well enjoy it. This plant is destined for a charity plant sale next year.
Nollie, I think colour spectacle might be temp dependant. The white tipped one I saved from last year, this year has some flowers plain and a couple of branches with white tips, all the same tuber. Maybe a bit like Salvia hot lips, which varies through the season, from all red, red and white, to white.
2 point 4, I really like that Nadia Ruth. If you are near me, I will buy it off of you.
Interesting about the weather/genetics stuff. Of the two NGs I have, both in same conditions, both flowering nonstop for months now, one is all single and one all double. Personally I prefer the single!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@fidgetbones - Nadia Ruth is destined to be yours. Delivery looks like it can be arranged without too much trouble!
Would you mind though if I kept her until next Spring? I would hate to give you something that doesn’t form a good tuber and I don’t know for certain yet whether it will do. I have 3 cuttings so hopefully one will come good. I’ve put a note in my gardening diary to remind myself.
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I have a bi-colour dahlia in my garden that has done nothing but produce blown centred flowers all summer. Given that my plant has also thrown out some single coloured flowers instead of two, it’s likely to be genetics. I have two cuttings of it taken before the problem was evident. If they are true to type, it might get a reprieve, otherwise it’s for the bin. Too many other nice ones to put up with an ugly duckling!
This one is called Nadia Ruth and is a flower on a cutting taken earlier this year. Ordinarily, I allow cuttings to flower sufficiently to check that my plant labelling is accurate and then I remove them. I missed removing this one due to being on holiday and so thought that I may as well enjoy it. This plant is destined for a charity plant sale next year.
Would you mind though if I kept her until next Spring? I would hate to give you something that doesn’t form a good tuber and I don’t know for certain yet whether it will do. I have 3 cuttings so hopefully one will come good. I’ve put a note in my gardening diary to remind myself.